OFFBEAT: Broadway tour of 'Priscilla' casts fun spell on audiences

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: Disney on Ice and animal opportunities this weekend

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

Gaga still going

Around this time two years ago, one Stefani Germanotta – better known to the masses as Lady Gaga – had the pop world in the palm of her hand.

Photography exhibit from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame comes to South Shore Arts

For Cleveland-based photographer Janet Macoska, a 1989 photo she took of Sir Paul McCartney brings her career full circle.

Adventures in Everyday Living, Shorelines Thursday, November 8, 2012

Rick Kaempfer touts David Stern's Balding Handbook and an exclusive, tell-all-he-can-remem(oir)ber coming next year from John Records Landecker and Eckhartz Press. And straight from the Rock 'n Roll HOF, 80 stunning photographs. --- Pat Colander, Associate Publisher and Editor.

TUNES & TIX: Mike Watt, keeper of the indie flame

Customarily, it takes at least a decade of hindsight for the contributions of music icons to be singled out for praise and to receive props from subsequent generations of rock and pop movers and shakers.

TUNES & TIX: A regal visit

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OFFBEAT: Sheryl Crow coming to Four Winds to 'break guitar' at New Hard Rock

Four Winds Casino and Hotel in New Buffalo has snagged Sheryl Crow to perform an exclusive concert at 9 p.m. EST on Sept. 7 for the grand opening night of the property's new Hard Rock Restaurant.

Rock and roll and photography are a perfect combination for Bobby Talamine

Bobby Talamine clearly remembers the instant time stood still. He was in his early teens when he knew his calling was rock and roll photography.

OFFBEAT: Under the Streetlamp a sizzling success with tour launch, Chicago Park West concerts

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: Dick Clark's 'Flintstones' house in Malibu on the market

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

OFFBEAT: Female WWII baseball team in Valpo this weekend, tribute to deaths of actor Jonathan Frid and Bill Hughes, husband of psychic Irene Hughes

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

PUBLISHER'S LETTER

Between traveling for work and pleasure and mild weather, this winter is a blur. But I want to hit some highlights, because there have been many this January and February.